High School Boot Camp

The Press Club's High School Boot Camp will take place in early spring at San Francisco City College. Come and explore exciting journalism workshops and listen to interesting guest speakers. The time and date will be announced soon.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Connie Rux has been named editor of the twice-weekly Alameda Journal, replacing Jeff Mitchell, who will become managing editor of the San Mateo County Times, MediaNews Group's Bay Area Newspaper Group-East Bay has announced.

Previously Rux was the city editor at the Oakland Tribune. Rux estimates that she's worked for more than a dozen newspapers throughout her 38-year career. Before the Tribune, she was editor of the Hayward Daily Review from 2002 to 2004 and editor of the Eureka Times-Standard from 1999 to 2002. Rux will oversee a staff of two reporters and a calendar editor.

Mitchell was appointed in May 2006 to the Alameda Journal editorship, replacing Lucinda Ryan. Before arriving at the Alameda Journal, Mitchell was a reporter for the Pasadena Star-News, the Daily News-Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times. He also served as a reporter and editor for the North County Times in San Diego County and most recently worked for the Fairfield Daily Republic and Marin Independent Journal.